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Death anxiety. Death anxiety is anxiety caused by thoughts of one's own death, and is also known as thanatophobia (fear of death). [1] Individuals affected by this kind of anxiety experience challenges and adversities in many aspects of their lives. [2] Death anxiety is different from necrophobia, which refers to an irrational or ...
Thanatophobia is the fear of things associated with or reminiscent of death and mortality, such as corpses or graveyards. It is related to necrophobia , although the latter term typically refers to a specific fear of dead bodies rather than a fear of death in general.
Autophobia, also called monophobia, isolophobia, or eremophobia, is the specific phobia or a morbid fear or dread of oneself or of being alone, isolated, abandoned, and ignored. [1][2] This specific phobia is associated with the idea of being alone, often causing severe anxiety. [3]
Death and adjustment hypotheses ( DAH) is a theory about death and dying that focuses on death anxiety and adjustment to death. [1] It was presented by Mohammad Samir Hossain as an answer to the overwhelming anxiety and grief about death. [2] [3] In an attempt to find the resolution to death anxiety, predominantly the existential one, DAH ...
The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...
Necrophobia is a specific phobia, the irrational fear of dead organisms (e.g., corpses) as well as things associated with death (e.g., coffins, tombstones, funerals, cemeteries). With all types of emotions, obsession with death becomes evident in both fascination and objectification. [1] In a cultural sense, necrophobia may also be used to mean ...
A childhood phobia[1][2][3][4][5] is an exaggerated, intense fear "that is out of proportion to any real fear" found in children. [5] It is often characterized by a preoccupation with a particular object, class of objects, or situation that one fears. [4] A phobic reaction is twofold—the first part being the "intense irrational fear" and the ...
Nosophobia, also known as disease phobia [1] or illness anxiety disorder, [2] is the irrational fear of contracting a disease, a type of specific phobia.Primary fears of this kind are fear of contracting HIV infection (AIDS phobia or HIV serophobia), [3] pulmonary tuberculosis (phthisiophobia), [4] sexually transmitted infections (syphilophobia or venereophobia), [5] cancer (carcinophobia ...